Gimp 2.4.3 allows color proofing but provides no mechanism for using a printer profile to actually print. I presume there are weighty issues involved in doing such a thing.
But in principle, it is not to difficult to do it in an ad hoc manner. All you have to do is modify the image using the print profile to do so and then print the result. I've managed to do it as follows. I created my print profile using a measuring device and the argyll suite of command line programs. argyll also includes a program cctiff for modifying a tiff file given source and destination profiles. The lcms package also contains a similar program tifficc (also jpegicc). I've used both these programs to modify a tiff file (assuming sRGB as the source profile) and then printed them using photoprint. I'm pretty sure that I could also do the printing using a gimp print plugin, in my case, the gimp gutenprint plugin. One does have to exercise a little care. First you have to make sure you let the profile do the work and print "uncorrected", and also, you have to use the same printing scheme to print that you used for making the profile. Measuring devices which can read prints are a bit expensive, so not everyone will want to go that route, but there are people who will produce a profile for you at modest cost. Look in particular at www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/photoprint.shtml -- Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mathematics Department, Northwestern University _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
